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  14 Women

  USA , 2006 , 80 min. With the opening of the 109th Congress in 2002, the number of women in the U.S. Senate shot from nine to 14 – the highest in the entire 228-year history of the legislative branch.... more
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  2 Segundos de Oscuridad

  USA , 6 min. Featuring the songs of Oscar-winning singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, this is a hypnotic five-minute exploration of the urban landscape and people of Madrid.... more
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  All In This Tea

  USA , 2007 , 70 min. Acclaimed filmmaker Les Blank accompanies single-minded tea expert David Lee Hoffman on an expedition to locate China's finest handmade teas.... more
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  American Fork

  USA , 2007 , 90 min. In his feature debut, director Chris Bowman follows the painful misadventures of an affable but obese grocery-store clerk who dreams of losing weight, becoming a famous actor – and finally getting his driver's license.... more
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  Anatoly Rybakov: The Russian Story

  USA , 2006 , 52 min. The life of late Russian writer Anatoly Rybakov ran parallel to the most harrowing chapters in his country’s modern history, from the Great Purge to World War II.... more
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  The Angel

  USA , 2006 , 8 min. This award-winning short tells the tale of 12-year old Twing, who sits at her ailing Grandma's bedside, fearing that Death will take her. Then she finds hope in a mysterious stranger with one leg.... more
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  Angels in America: Perestroika

  USA , 2003 , 195 min. Angels in America, one of the most important plays of the 20th century, also marks a milestone in cinematic storytelling.... more
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  Audience of One

  USA , 2007 , 88 min. Acting on a professed vision from God, Pentecostal pastor Richard Gazowsky sets out to create a multimillion-dollar science-fiction epic based on the Biblical story of Joseph, but its production proves the ultimate test of faith for him and his crew.... more
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  Autism: Another Way of Communicating

  USA , 2007 , 71 min. The struggle autistic children must undertake to express themselves is as painful as the one their parents must wage to understand.... more
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  The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández

  USA , 2007 , 87 min. May 20, 1997: an 18-year-old high-school boy is tending his parents’ herd of goats in South Texas when a band of Marines on anti-drug patrol mistakes him for a smuggler and shoots him down.... more
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  Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

  USA , 2007 , 117 min. Now Playing! Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet (Network, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico) directs an absorbing suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all—itself. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother Hank (Ethan Hawke) into ... more
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  Being Michael Madsen

  USA , 2007 , 90 min. In director Michael Mongillo’s sharply satirical – and hilarious – mockumentary, negative tabloid press generated by notorious paparazzo Billy Dant is wreaking havoc on Michael Madsen’s acting career.... more
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  Business Johnson

  USA , 2007 , 7 min. It's business as ususal for six friends hanging out on the porch, watching traffic go by and spinning yarns.... more
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  The Call of the Wild

  USA , 2007 , 115 min. Retracing the steps of Chris McCandless, the 24-year-old adventurer immortalized in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, documentary filmmaker Ron Lamothe begins to challenge the popular account of his death in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.... more
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  Chicago 10

  USA , 2006 , 103 min. The whole world watched as anti-war rioting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention threw Chicago into chaos – and as the protestors turned their trial into a media circus.... more
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  Cinema Q: A Walk into the Sea - Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory

  USA , 2007 , 75 min. A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory is director Esther Robinson’s personal inquiry into the truth behind the mysterious 1966 disappearance of her uncle Danny Williams.... more
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  Cinema Q: Black White + Gray

  USA , 2007 , 76 min. Set against the heady backdrop of the Manhattan art scene of the 1970s, Black White + Gray faithfully chronicles the symbiotic relationship between influential art collector Sam Wagstaff and the notorious Robert Mapplethorpe – Wagstaff’s lover, protégé and guide to the gay demimonde.... more
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  Clint Eastwood: A Life in Film

  USA , 2007 , 81 min. Enduring maverick, emergent enigma, ever-evolving Hollywood legend: over the course of five decades, Clint Eastwood has managed to avoid the pitfalls of the star system to become a genuine auteur.... more
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  Closer

  USA , 2004 , 104 min. Festival tribute guest and acclaimed cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt continues his artistic collaboration with Mike Nichols in Closer, an elaborate, articulate character study of the interrelationships between two couples.... more
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  The Cool School

  USA , 2007 , 86 min. In sharp contrast to the Europeanized art circles of mid–20th century New York, Los Angeles’ then-nascent art scene was to prove truly, dynamically, democratically American.... more
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  Cough Drop

  USA , 2007 , 16 min. Encouraged by a stranger’s kind words and easy manner, 10-year-old Kate decides to take a different route home.... more
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  Deep Sea Blues

  USA , 2007 , 118 min. Music documentarian extraordinaire Robert Mugge's Deep Sea Blues brings viewers along for a ride on the week-long Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise to the Caribbean to prove that the blues aren't dead – they're just on vacation.... more
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  Expecting

  USA , 2006 , 7 min. While undergoing a routine ultrasound, a couple is disturbed by the doctor's reaction. The physician takes a deep breath, and uneasily delivers the grim news: 'Your baby girl will be born...unattractive.' How could this be?... more
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  Face Value

  USA , 2006 , 18 min. A lonely office drone finds himself enamored with the seductive woman who spends every evening in the bar across the street.... more
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  Fish, but No Cigar

  USA , 2007 , 4 min. An enchanting animated essay about a woman who has bigger fish to fry. Literally.... more
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  Forfeit

  USA , 2007 , 84 min. This psychological thriller from Andrew Shea (Corndog Man, SDFF 22) follows ex-con Frank O’Neal back to his old stomping grounds in L.A., where he’s seemingly determined to turn his life around.... more
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  Frownland

  USA , 2007 , 106 min. A fiercely independent exemplar of nails-on-a-chalkboard realism, Frownland follows a self-described “troll from under the bridge" as he hocks coupon books door-to-door in New York’s outer suburbs and arouses antipathy in everyone around him.... more
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  Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door

  USA , 2007 , 90 min. This adaptation of a true story is best summed up by horrormeister Stephen King: “If you are easily disturbed, you should not watch this movie. If, on the other hand, you are prepared for a long look into hell, suburban style, The Girl Next Door will not disappoint.”... more
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  Girl's Room

  USA , 2007 , 10 min. A Catholic schoolgirl discovers there is nothing more frightening than having to go to the old, creepy restroom down the hall – all by herself.... more
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  Grace Is Gone

  USA , 2007 , 90 min. John Cusack stars as an average Joe whose wife Grace, a soldier, has been killed on tour of duty in Iraq.... more
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  Greensboro: Closer to the Truth

  USA , 2007 , 83 min. Adam Zucker’s documentary chronicles the efforts of the first U.S. Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help the citizens of Greensboro, North Carolina, work toward understanding and forgiveness following the infamous Greensboro Massacre of 1979.... more
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  Hell on Wheels

  USA , 2007 , 90 min. Saturday, July 17 at 7pm - Part of a Double Feature with Total Badass! Digital presentation - Straight from the trenches (make that the rink), Hell on Wheels eyeballs the dizzying clash of athleticism, exhibitionism, ego, politics and business that defines today's roller derby.... more
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  Her Best Move

  USA , 2007 , 101 min. High school sophomore Sara David’s life kicks into overdrive when she lands a chance at becoming the youngest player ever to qualify for the U.S. national soccer team – much to the thrill of her dad, a frantic fanatic.... more
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  I Hate Musicals

  USA , 2006 , 19 min. Brad hates musicals – but loves Melissa, who loves musicals. Sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do.... more
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  I Just Wanted to Be Somebody

  USA , 2006 , 10 min. What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman – Anita Bryant.... more
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  In the Heat of the Night

  USA , 1967 , 109 min. Norman Jewison's groundbreaking drama still captures the racial zeitgeist of the 1960s like no other film then or since.... more
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  Iron Ladies of Liberia

  USA , 2007 , 77 min. In November 2005 – following a 20-year civil war – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, an ex-finance minister known as the Iron Lady, became Liberia’s first elected female president.... more
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  Jack Taylor of Beverly Hills

  USA , 2006 , 72 min. Even his name fits perfectly: Jack Taylor, tailor extraordinaire, has been dressing Hollywood legends in his custom-made suits for over 60 years.... more
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  The Job

  USA , 2007 , 4 min. Even the best-dressed, highly qualified professional can be hard-pressed to find just the right job.... more
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  JUMP!

  USA , 2007 , 85 min. Double Dutch at the Olympics? Once relegated to the playground, jump roping is now considered a serious sport – as JUMP! nimbly attests.... more
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  Juncture

  USA , 2007 , 106 min. Juncture, James Seale’s latest indie thriller, updates the vigilante films of the 1970s for the postfeminist era. Diagnosed with a terminal disease, Anna Carter sets out on a mission to exact vengeance on child abusers.... more
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  Juno

  USA , 2007 , 92 min. Sparkling with clever dialogue, Jason Reitman’s follow-up to Thank You for Smoking finds 16 year-old Juno (a superb Ellen Page) pregnant by her clueless best friend Paulie.... more
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  Karl Rove, I Love You

  USA , 2007 , 97 min. In the heat of the 2004 election race, actor Dan Butler (best known as Bulldog on the TV sitcom “Frasier”) begins production on a one-man show about controversial political advisor Karl Rove.... more
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  The King of Marvin Gardens

  USA , 1972 , 103 min. Selecting one film to commemorate the passing of acclaimed cinematographer László Kovács from among the 70-plus titles to his credit might seem a thankless task.... more
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  Knee Deep

  USA , 2007 , 81 min. When you leave the Maine of lobster shacks and L.L. Bean outlets for the Maine of fields, farms and hard labor, you enter Knee Deep territory.... more
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  The Knife Grinder's Tale

  USA , 2007 , 15 min. The Knife Grinder's Tale traces a father's journey to understand why his son was murdered in the slums of Nairobi.... more
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  Last Hat in Town

  USA , 2007 , 75 min. This poignant and lyrical documentary chronicles the impact of the energy boom on the lives and livelihoods of rural Coloradans.... more
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  Leaving Gussie

  USA , 2007 , 35 min. Disheveled housewife Thyme checks into a ramshackle roadside motel – only to upset the equilibrium of its sleepy guests.... more
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  A Little Night Fright

  USA , 2007 , 3 min. When the bed time story ends and the lights go out, a little boy undergoes the torment of his older brother.... more
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  Loren Cass

  USA , 2006 , 83 min. Loren Cass captures the racial strife that plagued St. Petersburg, Florida, in the late 1990s through the eyes of three adolescents caught in its vicious cycle.... more